• Position Title: Research Associate
• Research Team: School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, UoW
• Funder: University of Wollongong, Jindaola: Indigenous Knowledge Grants ($30,000)

Australian Indigenous histories and contemporary Indigenous lives and relationships with Country are at the heart of Geography. They inform understandings of Australia’s colonial history and its legacy, environmental and heritage management, national identity, racism and structural marginalisation, and urban politics. In the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, a broad range of Indigenous contexts, perspectives and teaching practices are already in place across multiple subjects. As a School, we seek to continue to contribute to ongoing efforts to decolonise the discipline of Geography. However, we acknowledge that this requires recognition of and challenge to colonial forms of knowledge, pedagogical strategies and research methodologies. This project creates an opportunity for us to pay more systematic, explicit and careful attention to the ways in which geographic knowledge is produced and practiced, and to further embed Indigenous knowledges and perspectives into the curriculum.